The Dancers of Transforming Steps

The Kolkata Sanved dancers will perform unique choreography as part of a dance and video awareness raising initiative entitled Transforming Steps. Through Transforming Steps and the larger campaign, Stand with Survivors of Sex Trafficking, Stand Against Exploitation, the dancers will open themselves to the rich experience of travel and to a deeper understanding of the power of dance to transcend cultural barriers. As inspiring role models and human rights advocates, performing in London will broaden the dancer's scope of contemporary choreography and enhance their skills as dance movement therapy trainers working in Kolkata, India.

The Campaign; Stand with Survivors of Sex Trafficking

We are excited to launch an international campaign, Stand with Survivors of Sex Trafficking, Stand Against Exploitation, which will take six of our dancers to perform in London’s famous Sadler’s Wells Theater! In partnership with Rose McCausland of Living Lens, Elspeth Duncan, a film maker from Trinidad, and Mafalda Deville of the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company, we will create a performance as well as a film to raise awareness of human trafficking and violence. The film will be screened in London as the city gears up for the 2012 Olympics.